Cash-Strapped Colleges Defer Climate-Commitment Responsibilities

By SCOTT CARLSON

Cabrillo College, a two-year institution in Aptos, Calif., has
earned an incomplete. In the drive to slow climate change, the
college missed its first deadline by months.

In September, Cabrillo should have turned in a report with a
detailed estimate of its greenhouse-gas emissions, the first
requirement of any institution that signs the American College
& University Presidents Climate Commitment. Reached by phone
recently, Brian King, president of Cabrillo, provided an
explanation